Define overlays

An overlay is a watermark or standard logos or paper marks that you can add to your documents. An overlay can be either placed in front of the other document content, or behind it.

In the printed output, overlays are processed by DocBridge, so you can use any file in a format supported by your DocBridge license. For overlay files in paged formats, such as PDF or PS, only the first page is applied, and the other pages are ignored.

When defining overlays for printed output, we strongly recommend that you avoid using transparency, which may result in an interleaving or low-resolution output with substantially degraded quality.

In the electronic output, you provide information about the configured overlays to the Electronic Delivery exit point in KCM Core. The exit point then reads and applies the overlays by using the Core Scripting Language commands, such as MergePDF. See the Kofax Communications ManagerCore Scripting Language Developer's Guide.

To define an overlay in KCM Studio:

In the Navigator pane, on the Folder View tab, select the folder to store the overlay.
In the lower Navigator pane, click New > Overlay.
Enter the name for the overlay.
A new tab appears.
In the Overlay mode section, make a selection:
- Select Above Page to place the overlay in front of the document content.
- Select Below Page to place the overlay behind the document content.
In the Overlay file path section, enter the path to the overlay file.
- If the path is relative, it is resolved relative to the KCM B&OM Storage directory, which resides in: <deploy root>\KCM\Work\<Version>\Output Management\Storage. We recommend that you create a subdirectory in the Storage directory to store overlays.
- If the path is absolute, it is used as is.
  If the files are moved or deleted, you need to update the absolute paths manually.
Save the changes.